CORPO DE BOMBEIROS MILITAR DO DISTRITO FEDERAL
CENTRO DE ORIENTAÇÃO E SUPERVISÃO AO ENSINO ASSISTENCIAL
COLÉGIO MILITAR DOM PEDRO II
GEOLOGIC TIMELINE (PAGE 65)
1. What event happened about 4,540 million years ago? 17. In which era did mammals rise?
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2. Which eon began when Earth’s crust cooled enough for life 18. What is the name of the period when humans appeared?
to form? ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________ 19. What epochs belong to the Quaternary period?
3. Which organisms appeared in the Proterozoic eon? ___________________________________________________
___________________________________________________ 20. What was the death rate during the Ordovician extinction?
4. What kinds of animals existed during the Cambrian period? ___________________________________________________
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5. In which period did the earliest bony fish appear? 21. Are the sentences TRUE (T) or FALSE (F)?
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6. During which period did the first land animals appear? a) (T)(F) The Earth formed about 4,540 million years ago.
___________________________________________________ b) (T)(F) In the Archean eon, Earth’s crust cooled enough for
7. In which period did the first seed plants appear? continents to form.
___________________________________________________ c) (T)(F) Bacteria, algae, and jellyfish appeared during the
8. What animals appeared in the Mississippian period? Proterozoic eon.
___________________________________________________ d) (T)(F) In the Cambrian period, invertebrate animals,
9. Which animals appeared during the Pennsylvanian period? brachiopods, and trilobites appeared.
___________________________________________________ e) (T)(F) The first bony fish appeared in the Ordovician period.
10. In which period did the first reptiles appear? f) (T)(F) The first land animals appeared in the Silurian period.
___________________________________________________ g) (T)(F) First seed plants and cartilage fish appeared in the
11. What was the death rate in the Permian extinction? Devonian period.
___________________________________________________ h) (T)(F) Many crinoids appeared during the Mississippian
12. Which plants and animals appeared during the Triassic period.
period? i) (T)(F) The first insects appeared in the Pennsylvanian
___________________________________________________ period.
13. In which period did the first birds appear? j) (T)(F) The first reptiles appeared in the Permian period.
___________________________________________________ k) (T)(F) Dinosaurs and cycads appeared in the Triassic period.
14. Which plants appeared in the Cretaceous period? l) (T)(F) The first birds appeared in the Jurassic period.
___________________________________________________ m) (T)(F) The Cretaceous period ended with the extinction of
15. Which event marked the end of the dinosaurs? the dinosaurs.
___________________________________________________ n) (T)(F) The rise of mammals happened in the Tertiary period.
16. What was the death rate during the Triassic extinction? o) (T)(F) The Quaternary period is divided into Holocene,
___________________________________________________ Pleistocene, Pliocene, Miocene, Oligocene, and Eocene
epochs.
p) (T)(F) The rise of man happened in the Quaternary period.